August 31st, 2014 by Mike

It rained here Saturday night for the first time in 15 days – breaking a dry spell that had tomato plants gasping.

A total of 1.77 inches of rain fell at Maple Leaf Life South for the month of August.

Almost all of it fell overnight (0.76 inches) and on Aug. 13th (0.85 inches).

It’s true fall doesn’t officially arrive until the equinox on Sept. 23rd. But as Cliff Mass pointed out this week:

“After a beautiful summer, with warmth and relatively dry conditions from mid-July to mid-August, a reminder that we are living in the Northwest often comes in late August: the first passage of the first fall-like system.”